Lynn Persists
@lynnpersists.bsky.social
This becatted bisexual librarian finds happiness in books, cats, puzzles, and other good generic fun. Seeks to follow fellow enthusiasts.
The bed will not be made today, no.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The bed will not be made today, no.
Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.
Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).
We used to have good times: 12 October 2020.
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We used to have good times: 12 October 2020.
Lilja, one of five Trolls who act as Guardians of the Seeds, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The youngest of the trolls, she loves the colors and the scents of the flowers and when bees and butterflies fly among branches.
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Lilja, one of five Trolls who act as Guardians of the Seeds, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The youngest of the trolls, she loves the colors and the scents of the flowers and when bees and butterflies fly among branches.
Some very nice moss and a fern.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Some very nice moss and a fern.
American red squirrel friend looking very demure, very mindful.
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
American red squirrel friend looking very demure, very mindful.
The feeling when you want to go to bed, but the cat has got there before you.
October 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The feeling when you want to go to bed, but the cat has got there before you.
See the new friend I made today! This Chinese mantis could not get enough of my shirt. (New England has no native mantis. The Chinese mantis was first recorded in the USA in 1896 and the European mantis in 1900.)
September 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
See the new friend I made today! This Chinese mantis could not get enough of my shirt. (New England has no native mantis. The Chinese mantis was first recorded in the USA in 1896 and the European mantis in 1900.)
Going through old image files and rediscovered this gem I'd commissioned from caricatss (ig) of my Lolly as a grumpy barbarian.
September 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Going through old image files and rediscovered this gem I'd commissioned from caricatss (ig) of my Lolly as a grumpy barbarian.
May we all be as content as these mice, surrounded by the beauty of the natural world.
Name: Mouse in Spring
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Monhi (Mo Nhi?)
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Name: Mouse in Spring
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Monhi (Mo Nhi?)
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
May we all be as content as these mice, surrounded by the beauty of the natural world.
Name: Mouse in Spring
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Monhi (Mo Nhi?)
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Name: Mouse in Spring
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Monhi (Mo Nhi?)
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Mrs. Grumpalong is having a day.
August 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Mrs. Grumpalong is having a day.
Name: Bicycle Ride
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Karen Cook
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Karen Cook
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
August 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Name: Bicycle Ride
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Karen Cook
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Publisher: Trevell
Artist: Karen Cook
Pieces: 99
Puzzle Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
#jigsaw #puzzle #jigsawpuzzle
Orphée aux Feuillages (Orpheus in Foliage), a stained glass work, designed by Jean Cocteau and made by Roger Malherbe-Navarre at Les Gemmaux de France studio around 1954; now part of the collection at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, USA.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Orphée aux Feuillages (Orpheus in Foliage), a stained glass work, designed by Jean Cocteau and made by Roger Malherbe-Navarre at Les Gemmaux de France studio around 1954; now part of the collection at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, USA.
Cross your eyes and tell me there isn't a large and strangely muscular mouse holding a small barrel in its hands.
August 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Cross your eyes and tell me there isn't a large and strangely muscular mouse holding a small barrel in its hands.
After an afternoon spent looking at Thanksgiving recipes, it's salad with guac and chips for Sunday's supper.
August 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
After an afternoon spent looking at Thanksgiving recipes, it's salad with guac and chips for Sunday's supper.
The bird-seeded sunflower is doing fine. Look at the bees with their pollen sacks! #bloomscrolling
July 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The bird-seeded sunflower is doing fine. Look at the bees with their pollen sacks! #bloomscrolling
"What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
July 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
As I was photographing roses this evening, I espied an eastern cottontail rabbit enjoying a little nosh. It's about all lawn is good for.
July 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
As I was photographing roses this evening, I espied an eastern cottontail rabbit enjoying a little nosh. It's about all lawn is good for.
Ohhh, one of my bird-seeded sunflowers is beginning to flower. A sunflower's flower is called in inflorescence, composed of ray florets (yellow petals) and disk florets (which combine to make the "eye").
July 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ohhh, one of my bird-seeded sunflowers is beginning to flower. A sunflower's flower is called in inflorescence, composed of ray florets (yellow petals) and disk florets (which combine to make the "eye").
Can't sleep so here's the chrysanthemum I built from the Lego Botanicals collection. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
June 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Can't sleep so here's the chrysanthemum I built from the Lego Botanicals collection. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
My April and May 2025 #StoryGraph wrap-ups. I read a lot of manga in the beginning of May, as I needed a break after The River Has Roots (a haunting novel), and then threw myself back into historical fiction.
June 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My April and May 2025 #StoryGraph wrap-ups. I read a lot of manga in the beginning of May, as I needed a break after The River Has Roots (a haunting novel), and then threw myself back into historical fiction.
Not that you asked, but Petco has an excellent pet Pride collection and "10% of your purchase goes to The Trevor Project."
May 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Not that you asked, but Petco has an excellent pet Pride collection and "10% of your purchase goes to The Trevor Project."
A fair bit of fun, assembling this derpy-looking LEGO cardinal on my lunch break. Kit by AbbieDabbles.
May 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A fair bit of fun, assembling this derpy-looking LEGO cardinal on my lunch break. Kit by AbbieDabbles.
A bearded iris, probably 'Wabash,' after the rain.
May 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A bearded iris, probably 'Wabash,' after the rain.